Seizing the Means of Reproduction
Entanglements of Feminism, Health, and Technoscience
1st Edition
Published on 26. November 2012
272 pages
978-0-8223-9580-5 (ISBN)
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In Seizing the Means of Reproduction, Michelle Murphy's initial focus on the alternative health practices developed by radical feminists in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s opens into a sophisticated analysis of the transnational entanglements of American empire, population control, neoliberalism, and late-twentieth-century feminisms.
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Michelle Murphy is Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies and of History at the University of Toronto. She is the author of the Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty, also published by Duke University Press.
Content
Acknowledgements vii
Introduction: Feminism in/as Biopolitics 1
1. Assembling Protocol Feminism 25
2. Immodest Witnessing, Affective Economies, and Objectivity 68
3. Pap Smears, Cervical Cancer, and Scales 102
4. Traveling Technology and a Device for Not Performing Abortions 150
Conclusion: Living the Contradiction 177
Notes 183
Bibliography 219
Index 247
Introduction: Feminism in/as Biopolitics 1
1. Assembling Protocol Feminism 25
2. Immodest Witnessing, Affective Economies, and Objectivity 68
3. Pap Smears, Cervical Cancer, and Scales 102
4. Traveling Technology and a Device for Not Performing Abortions 150
Conclusion: Living the Contradiction 177
Notes 183
Bibliography 219
Index 247
